14.19.1 problem 2

Internal problem ID [3881]
Book : Differential equations and linear algebra, Stephen W. Goode and Scott A Annin. Fourth edition, 2015
Section : Chapter 9, First order linear systems. Section 9.8 (Matrix exponential function), page 642
Problem number : 2
Date solved : Tuesday, September 30, 2025 at 06:58:28 AM
CAS classification : system_of_ODEs

\begin{align*} \frac {d}{d t}x_{1} \left (t \right )&=2 x_{1} \left (t \right )+x_{2} \left (t \right )\\ \frac {d}{d t}x_{2} \left (t \right )&=2 x_{2} \left (t \right ) \end{align*}
Maple. Time used: 0.150 (sec). Leaf size: 23
ode:=[diff(x__1(t),t) = 2*x__1(t)+x__2(t), diff(x__2(t),t) = 2*x__2(t)]; 
dsolve(ode);
 
\begin{align*} x_{1} \left (t \right ) &= \left (c_2 t +c_1 \right ) {\mathrm e}^{2 t} \\ x_{2} \left (t \right ) &= c_2 \,{\mathrm e}^{2 t} \\ \end{align*}
Mathematica. Time used: 0.002 (sec). Leaf size: 29
ode={D[x1[t],t]==2*x1[t]+x2[t],D[x2[t],t]==2*x2[t]}; 
ic={}; 
DSolve[{ode,ic},{x1[t],x2[t]},t,IncludeSingularSolutions->True]
 
\begin{align*} \text {x1}(t)&\to e^{2 t} (c_2 t+c_1)\\ \text {x2}(t)&\to c_2 e^{2 t} \end{align*}
Sympy. Time used: 0.048 (sec). Leaf size: 26
from sympy import * 
t = symbols("t") 
x__1 = Function("x__1") 
x__2 = Function("x__2") 
ode=[Eq(-2*x__1(t) - x__2(t) + Derivative(x__1(t), t),0),Eq(-2*x__2(t) + Derivative(x__2(t), t),0)] 
ics = {} 
dsolve(ode,func=[x__1(t),x__2(t)],ics=ics)
 
\[ \left [ x^{1}{\left (t \right )} = C_{1} e^{2 t} + C_{2} t e^{2 t}, \ x^{2}{\left (t \right )} = C_{2} e^{2 t}\right ] \]